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Latest newsen-gbEuropean Commissioncnect-editor-nr@ec.europa.eucnect-editor-nr@ec.europa.eu30GENESI: Safe public infrastructure… for life!https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/20762
European researchers have developed a wireless sensor system to monitor the safety of large infrastructure. The new system will not only potentially save lives when the structure is old, it is reducing costs during construction, too. Other previously unimagined applications of this new technology are also possible: monitoring transport of artworks or of an Alpine railway line vulnerable to landslides.Thu, 19 Feb 2015 10:30:00 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/20762Revealing the forgery footprint with REWINDhttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/20619
Current electronic devices make it easy for anyone to create and modify multimedia objects. Modifications potentially leave characteristic footprints that can be used for its identification. The REWIND FET Open project developed the tools to detect them.Mon, 16 Feb 2015 09:46:00 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/20619MAXICULTURE boosts initiatives in digital culturehttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/20004
Digital technologies provide a unique opportunity to preserve, access and spread our cultural heritage. But what are their socio-economic and technological impacts? The MAXICULTURE project provides a toolkit for measuring projects’ socio-economic and technological impact and how they can best use ICT in the cultural heritage domain.Mon, 19 Jan 2015 10:00:00 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/20004Virtual reality for stepping in racial shoeshttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/19713
Scientists at the VERE project have developed tools providing people with the opportunity to experience life in someone else's skin using virtual reality, as a means of helping people shed racial stereotypes. Understand the power that virtual embodiment has in cognitives sciences with the testimonial Mel Slater at University College London and the University of Barcelona.Wed, 17 Dec 2014 15:14:11 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/19713Untapping the potential of magic mushrooms for neuroscienceshttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/19625
Researchers at the TOPDRIM FET-Proactive project used for the first time compounds from magic mushrooms to map functional brain connections and networks. This novel approach allows researchers to understand how different brain areas connect and rearrange their connections. The results might also be used to treat depression.Wed, 10 Dec 2014 16:34:15 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/19625EPIWORK: Ebola forecasting uses model developed by EU projecthttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/19388
Forecasters predicting the spread of Ebola are using one of the most sophisticated modeling systems in the world – the result of an EU research project.Thu, 27 Nov 2014 08:30:00 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/19388An octopus as seen by a roboticisthttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/19326
Its arms are soft and deformable, they can bend in any direction at any point along the arm; however, they can stiffen when needed and they can grasp and pull objects with considerable strength; the octopus does not have a large brain, yet it can control this huge range of possible movements and motion parameters. What are the secrets to the octopus's soft dexterity? This is the core question the OCTOPUS project endeavoured to answer.Mon, 24 Nov 2014 10:05:21 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/19326RoboSoft: A Coordination Action for Soft Roboticshttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/19277
Soft robotics technologies are becoming a major focus of robotics and hold great promise to become a cutting-edge for the development of systems for a wide range of new applications especially in those areas previously forbidden to rigid robots. RoboSoft is a FET Open Coordination Action that aims to bring together and consolidate the soft robotics community to enable the accumulation and sharing of crucial knowledge needed for scientific and technological progress in this field.Wed, 19 Nov 2014 17:43:59 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/19277Italy in focus: The personal experience of Michela Chiappalonehttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/19198
Professor Michela Chiappalone is a neuroscientist at the Department of Neuroscience and Brain Technologies, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT). She is also the coordinator of the BRAIN BOW FET Open project aiming to connect in vitro neuronal assemblies to an artificial system for restoring the lost neuronal functionality. In this interview she tells us about her experience, as a researcher involved in a FET project.Tue, 18 Nov 2014 10:13:00 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/19198Italy in focus: SI-CODE FET Open projecthttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/19197
Can we crack the code used by neurons to encode and transmit information? Can we use our knowledge of the neural code to improve the communication between brain and machines? These are the questions that SI-CODE addresses, aiming to make a big leap forward in improving the understanding of the code used by neurons to transmit information with potential applications in innovative brain machine interfaces (BMIs).Mon, 17 Nov 2014 09:46:00 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/19197NEBIAS: The world’s most advanced bionic handhttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/18974
The world’s most advanced bionic hand, providing a sense of touch acute enough to handle an egg, has been completed after 10 years of EU-funded research.Wed, 05 Nov 2014 08:30:00 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/18974euRathlon Grand Challenge 2015 competitionhttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/18798
The final euRathlon Grand Challenge will be held on 17-25 September 2015 in Piombino, Italy. The competition involves robots from the sea, land and air domains truly challenging their abilities to cooperate in order to succeed.Thu, 23 Oct 2014 14:19:47 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/18798PLANTOID: Robotic solutions inspired by plantshttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/18404
EU-funded researchers are demonstrating revolutionary robotic techniques inspired by plants, featuring a 3D-printed ‘trunk’, ‘leaves’ that sense the environment and ‘roots’ that grow and change direction.Fri, 03 Oct 2014 08:38:00 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/18404City | Data | Future - the UrbanIxD exhibitionhttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/18394
Venice was the setting for a recent exhibition presenting a series of visions depicting what it might be like to live in a future city saturated with data. The City | Data | Future exhibition, hosted for two weeks at Telecom Italia’s Future Centre, The exhibition was created by the FET Open UrbanIxD project.Thu, 02 Oct 2014 10:28:45 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/18394SEEMPUBS: maximum energy savings with minimum intervention for historic buildingshttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/18366
The EU-funded project SEEMPUBS plans on using a new ICT-based monitoring, visualisation and control system to reduce and enhance historic buildings’ energy consumption.Tue, 30 Sep 2014 08:06:29 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/18366EU project could help paralysed patients walk againhttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/18258
Researchers within the NEUWalk project have discovered how to make a paralysed rat walk again via electrical stimuli to its spinal cord. Their results have been published in Science Translational Medicine. The research team also announces the opening of a new innovative lab at the Lausanne University Hospital, bringing this ICT project closer to clinical trials. Nine partners from Germany, Finland, France, Italy, the UK and Switzerland are joining their expertise to develop neuroprosthetic systems that could restore motor functions after spinal cord injury. The systems could also relieve patients with Parkinson's disease.Wed, 24 Sep 2014 19:05:00 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/18258The Success story of Italian Startup Doveconvienehttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/18260
Italian Startup Doveconviene revolutionises customer promotions and allows users to organize their shopping trip online so they know exactly where to go to find the best deal.Wed, 24 Sep 2014 09:44:29 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/18260V-MUST.NET: How museums will look in the futurehttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/18209
2014 marks 2 000 years since the death of Augustus, founder of the Roman Empire. A unique new exhibition is using the anniversary to showcase Europe’s very latest in virtual museum technology.Tue, 23 Sep 2014 10:30:00 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/18209The Success story of Italian Startup Vivochahttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/18204
Whilst online shopping has great advantages, web users often have questions when purchasing a product and don’t want to spend hours at the end of a phone line waiting for help. Italian startup Vivocha (an acronym for ‘video, voice, chat’) solves the problem with their multi-channel online customer service website.Fri, 19 Sep 2014 08:31:07 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/18204SUNRISE: using underwater robots for a better understanding of the underwater worldhttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/18163
It is where we all came from and it is vital to our future, but the earth’s oceans, seas and waterways remain a mystery to us – a final frontier. The Sunrise project is at the forefront of a revolution in communications, creating an underwater ‘internet of things’, that will mobilise robots to work in groups, interacting together and passing back information to us on life underwater.Wed, 17 Sep 2014 10:30:00 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/18163The Success story of Italian Startup Docebohttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/17777
Docebo’s simple Saas learning management system supplies, tracks and certifies business courses; allowing businesses to reduce costs of training and optimize time dedicated to training activities.Thu, 14 Aug 2014 13:07:59 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/17777EVERYAWARE: Measuring your way to a healthier environmenthttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/17693
Air and noise pollution are among the most insidious threats to our health. But what if we could monitor both from our smartphones? The AirProbe and Widenoise apps, developed by an EU-funded research project called EVERYAWARE, have made this possible. Partners from Belgium, Germany, Italy and the UK have developed this system to increase people’s awareness of their environment.Thu, 07 Aug 2014 10:30:00 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/17693BRAIN-FETs 2014: 1st Clustering Workshop on Future Emerging NeuroTechnologieshttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/17590
This workshop aims at clustering a relatively small subset of the European FET community, particularly active on Brain inspired ICT, Neurotechnologies, novel materials, and computational approaches. It is a unique opportunity to learn about ongoing research and to critically contribute in designing next steps in FETs, successfully facing the many challenges that await.Wed, 30 Jul 2014 21:07:00 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/17590The Success story of Italian Startup Beintoohttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/17566
Nowadays, all successful businesses need to make the most of new technology. Italian Startup Beintoo is an example of how young entrepreneurs can bring technology to the next level and use it as an opportunity to change the game.Mon, 28 Jul 2014 13:40:18 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/17566CASCADE: reducing energy use by airportshttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/17525
Airports are big energy consumers – and that’s before a plane takes off or lands. The daily electricity and thermal energy used by a large airport compares to that of a city of 100,000 people.Mon, 28 Jul 2014 10:30:00 GMThttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/17525